30 April 2019 :
The House Judiciary Committee voted 15-4 to reject HB 338. The bill would require indisputable DNA or video proof of a person's guilt in a capital crime before the defendant could be sentenced to death.

30 April 2019 :
The House Judiciary Committee voted 15-4 to reject HB 338. The bill would require indisputable DNA or video proof of a person's guilt in a capital crime before the defendant could be sentenced to death.
A death row inmate convicted of killing two people by burying them alive in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan in 2006, died on January 31, 2026, the Justice Ministry said, with suicide being suspected.
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